What's the worst online comic strip?

Whoops, x-post.

Did Mitch Clem use to do stuff in Punk Planet? I know I've been gently irritated by his strips somewhere in print

the melody maker djs were called Herman and Sherman. or so i have been informed by a person who owns a cat and girl hoodie.

http://www.mitchclem.com/rockcity/images/comic_files/20060921.gif

The only way I can make any sense of this one is if it's a They Might Be Giants reference.

also, can we throw Penny Arcade and Dustinland into the debate here? PA is occasionally funny (when the video game refs don't go over my head) but this whole genre of comics that are just a stand-in for the author wearing a band shirt and saying shit they say to their friends has got to stop. wtf happened to comics about talking animals and incongruously worldly children?

questionable content is totally awful

I used to like Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles, but it's the same joke over and over. Bored now.

river wolf otm, I tried to read qc for a couple of months and it's just 'aren't my characters adorable omg'. dude designs pretty good t-shirts tho.

ughhhh...

ugh

ha xp

Cat and Girl is about 100x better than that other shit. Comments about Dom's ex otm

besides daybyday I think the other answer to this is http://www.little-gamers.com/

I mean it's all well and good to bitch about penny arcade, but their competition is so horribly lame it beggars the imagination to conceive of a person so lame as to put this shit up on the internet on a regular basis

guy who does PVP is clearly talented and works hard at it but his material is pretty standard soap-opera-for-nerd-alerts (cf sluggy freelance, scarygoround, etc) which gets old as hell after a while IMO- which is another reason I favor stuff like PA or even achewood, where continuity is treated as optional from week to week etc

there are seriously hundreds of webcomics that could probably be objectively rated worse than the ones pointed out on this thread so far

I've read far, far too many of them

should read "competition is so horrible" nix the adverbial suffix and redundant use of lame

The only way I can make any sense of this one is if it's a They Might Be Giants reference

OMG it is too, how did I not realise. Still sucks though.

river wolf otm, I tried to read qc for a couple of months and it's just 'aren't my characters adorable omg'. dude designs pretty good t-shirts tho.

wtf, the questionable content t-shirts fully reflect dude's lack of drawing ability and unfortunate aesthetic sense

haha, man, i'm discussing webcomics

Tombot otm about penny arcade mostly... at least they don't have pretentions of being anything other than a cheetofingered circle jerk. Achewood has its moments of greatness.

GOTCHA xpost

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/with_apologies_to_the_who.png

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/linux_user_at_best_buy.png

argh

I just tore my own head and shat down my neck, reading those.

Wow thats TERRIBLE. And I like some of the XKCD strips!

"lol i use linux i am cool" wtf that joke wasnt funny in 1995.

Some of them are ok. A lot of the "nerdy in jokes" are really pretty surface level references meant to make Joe Dorito Breath feel better.

Although maybe I should try my hand at this as my cute programmer/indie rocker ex-girlfriend from 2001 seems to get moist for XKCD etc

I like his whimsy ones that arent nerdy, like his one about a whole part of his brain being devoted to building the greatest treehouse ever. I liked that.

I think my webcomic tastes are more of a pokey the penguin / tim @ kfc.edu / jerkcity flavor though.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/regarding_mussolini.png

Jerkcity is awesome.

I avoided Achewood for a long time because I hate the artwork, but the writing is winning me over.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/appropriate_term.png

I kind of like that one.

I have used that right hand term many times

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dream_girl.png

This dude is trolling for pussy.

That one's kind of depressing!

i love achewood unreservedly

http://m.assetbar.com/uua3CDHzw.gif

best achewood?

cmon the art in achewood is key to the lolz

This dude is trolling for pussy.

This otm.

not as good as pokey

mr nutty: "i have a dream that one day penguins will live in peace!!"

penguin: "we do live in peace"

mr nutty: "my dream has come true!!!!"

This is crazy. Cat and Girl is fantastic. Part of XKCD's charm is that it's more like a blog with random thoughts than a "webcomic" like most of the rest, so even though some of the ones you posted are cringy, it's all good in the end.

Nothing beats Pokey of course.

GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD!!! HELLO SEXY WORLD!!!

fuck you, corny indie web comic fuck

I hadn't noticed that the time+date on that xkcd hasn't happened. Are his avid readers meant to turn up and propose to him or something?

Anyway, uh, as a corny indie webcomic-reading fuck with a Cat and Girl t-shirt (and I don't read SARC but I used to read Mitch Clem's old comic Nothing Nice To Say, probably more because I like the way he draws characters than anything else, but it had its moments), I have to wonder if there are any webcomics you don't hate, Dom?

Really though, you want to see worse comics, go to keenspace or drunkduck and click on one at random. And if you think you've found the worst webcomic ever, just go through the archives until you see the words "guest strip", and there you'll have a link to an even worse one.

(I am really tempted to link to a friend of a friend's apparent attempts to recreate Love Is... for the Warcraft/livejournal generation, with every other strip being "hiii I was in the pub and Lisa asked me to draw her so here is some unrecognisable Photoshop-daubing with the word Lisa underneath and here is Lisa's gerbil and Lisa likes dolphins so here is a picture of a dolphin lols" "my boyfriend made me a cup of tea he is really nice and i like tea!!" "this strip was late because i am busy lol work sucks huh here is a cartoon of a pile of books and me looking sad!!! :( :(", but I could see them getting upset enough to go through the whole of ILX to find out who I am, so you'll just have to imagine that delight. Also they've improved a bit and taken the really lousy stuff down, but I'm sure there are even worse comics out there which haven't reached that stage yet.)

I have to wonder if there are any webcomics you don't hate, Dom?

Dinosaur Story, Cyanide and Happiness, most Natalie Dee.

Can you explain the appeal of Natalie Dee?

when did it get popular to draw as if you were an eight-year-old, and can we please get to the next stage of what's popular please

2005

I have to admit that Linux joke made me laugh. (Well actually the motorcycle made me laugh.)

exact quote from a musician talking about his own music

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woah questionable content is still going. i remember occasionally reading it (dunno why) and thinking it had run out of steam like ten years ago

hoo boy.

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